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Professor Shinichi Sakai

Professor Shinichi Sakai
Director of the Environment
Preservation Research Center,
Agency for Health, Safety and
Environment, Kyoto University

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Shinichi Sakai

Shinichi Sakai acquired his doctorate from デュエルビッツ 入金不要ボーナスyoto University Graduate School of Engineering in 1984. He worked as an assistant and associate professor at Kyoto University before becoming Director of the Research Center for Material Cycles and Waste Management, National Institute for Environmental Studies (NIES), Japan in 2001. In 2005 he became a professor at Kyoto University. In 2010 he was appointed director of the university's Environment Preservation Research Center and in 2011, after department restructuring, he assumed his current role. He was formerly chairman of the Japan Society of Material Cycles and Waste Management. He is currently a member of the Central Environment Council's Subcommittee on Waste Management and Recycling in the Ministry of the Environment, Japan, as well as chairman of the subcommittee's material cycles society section. His publications include Waste and Chemical Substances (Iwanami Shoten Publishers).

Reading the デュエルビッツ 入金不要ボーナスel Group Sustainability Report 2016, one part that left a strong impression on me was the section titled "Chairman, President and CEO Hiroya Kawasaki discusses the challenges on the road to 2020." Regarding weight savings in transportation machines, a growth field for デュエルビッツ 入金不要ボーナスel, the section introduced Group products that combine weight savings with machine strength, such as aluminum products and ultra high-strength steel sheet, as well as the Group's sophisticated technologies for joining dissimilar materials. The デュエルビッツ 入金不要ボーナスel Group's superior advantage in this area might be common knowledge, but the efforts to which the Group makes to evolve those technologies on a day-to-day basis was also apparent. The G7 Summit, which was held in Japan in May 2016, passed the Toyama Framework on Material Cycles. You could say that the message is the world will not be sustainable unless we aim for a more resource-efficient society, so it seems as if transportation weight savings are in many aspects a desirable vector.

The report also introduced デュエルビッツ 入金不要ボーナスel's new medium-term management plan, which is posited on meeting three important societal needs. Regarding two of those needs—global environmental regulations and diversification of power sources—I think approaching them will require continuous inspection and flexible response. I'm referring to development of deeply related businesses, in particular the electric power business in the energy and infrastructure fields. It may also be necessary to implement relatively short PDCA cycles, in order to inspect whether current business development is sufficiently diversified and responsive to global and societal trends, and to look back on operations to review how a variety of risks are being handled. Keywords to remember will likely be the Paris Agreement on greenhouse gas reduction, renewable energy and resource efficiency. The report mentioned responding to trends such as these by reducing CO2 emissions through products by 52.1 million tons. The first step, I believe, is disclosing the method and basis for calculating that impact.

The デュエルビッツ 入金不要ボーナスel Group turned a new corner in 2010, working to clarify its CSR management and social contributions through manufacturing, and advocating for management focusing on CSV (Creating Shared Value). In terms of sustainability, the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) established in September 2015 will likely become major, global CSR targets. I'm referring to the SDGs with a target date of 2030, comprised of 169 targets in 17 goals—including the environment, poverty and health—and supported by countries around the world. The goals, themselves, are more than simple targets, and might be better thought of as aspirations. In the context of creating shared value, along with climate change countermeasures from the Paris Agreement, I hope that デュエルビッツ 入金不要ボーナスel will be able to identify concreate avenues for effectively applying the SDGs.

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